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1 online resource (189 pages) |
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The Basics Ser |
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Basics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Can Analysis be Pleasurable Too?; In the Beginning is the word; Summary; 1. Seven pleasures of reading; Pleasure 1: beginnings; Pleasure 2: meeting people; Pleasure 3: creating a world of word; Pleasure 4: hearing voices; Pleasure 5: finding ourselves; Pleasure 6: anticipating plots; Pleasure 7: lessons along the way; And one more pleasure: re-reading; 2. The semantic context; 1 Situational semantics; 2 Historical semantics; 3 Figurative semantics; Further Reading; 3. The syntactic and thematic contexts |
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1 The sentence2 The paragraph; 3 From syntactic to thematic contexts; Further Reading; 4. Getting to the crux of things: Hamlet, a case study; 1 A sense of the whole: Hamlet's plot; 2 The crux: semantic and thematic contexts; 3 The crux: syntactic and thematic contexts; 4 The crux: semantic, syntactic and thematic contexts; Further Reading; 5. The iterative context, Part 1: character and plot; 1 Repetition and the iterative context; 2 Character in the light of the whole; 3 Plotting a whole; 4 Place: iteration and resolution; 5 Endings and iterations; Further Reading |
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6. The iterative context, Part 2: sounds and rhythms1 Sound, repetition and iteration; 2 A short poem; 3 A longer poem; 4 Metre matters; 5 Free verse; Further Reading; 7. The generic context; 1 Magic and the generic context; 2 The sonnet; 3 Tragedy; 4 The novel; Further Reading; 8. The adversarial context; Case study 1: Biography and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese; Case study 2: Marxism and The Great Gatsby; Case study 3: Feminism and Wuthering Heights; Conclusion: Adversarial appreciation and the futures of close reading; Further Reading; Glossary; Bibliography |
| Summary |
"Close reading remains the most essential skill that Literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies and this book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond. Using classic works of Literature, such as Hamlet and The Great Gatsby, as case studies, Greenham presents a unique, contextual approach to close reading, while addressing key questions such as: - What is close reading? - What is the importance of the relationship between words? - How can close reading enhance reading pleasure? - Is there a method of close reading that works for all literary genres? - How can close reading unlock complexity? - How does the practice of close reading relate to other theoretical and critical approaches? Close Reading: The Basics is formulated to bring together reading pleasure and analytic techniques that will engage the student of literature, and enhance their experience"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature -- Study and teaching.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature -- Study and teaching.
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351356947 |
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1351356941 |
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9780203709979 |
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0203709977 |
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